Adding Vitamins

I was just sitting here thinking about the whys and wherefores of the whole discussion about vitamins. LOTS of people go with what Dr. Simeon said in his Pounds & Inches book:

Sooner or later most patients express a fear that they may be running out of vitamins or that the restricted diet may make them anemic. On this score the physician can confidently relieve their apprehension by explaining that every time they lose a pound of fatty tissue, which they do almost daily, only the actual fat is burned up; all the vitamins, the proteins, the blood, and the minerals which this tissue contains in abundance are fed back into the body. Actually, a low blood count not due to any serious disorder of the blood forming tissues improves during treatment, and we have never encountered a significant protein deficiency nor signs of a lack of vitamins in patients who are dieting regularly.

It occurred to me that Dr. Simeon was talking about...